Why are no-follow links in my blog comments across the web showing up as "equity-passing"?
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When I make comments on blog posts (and there's a link in my comment or my name is the link to my site), the links are always no-follow (as they should be). But, when I check Open Site Explorer, the new links show up as equity-passing. Are they actually passing equity or is this a mistake?
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Hi Grobro
Do you have any other links that we are counting as follow that are using the "external nofollow" tag? Our devs are trying to find a pattern to rule out the possibility of the link not set as nofollow when we originally crawled it.
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Hi Grobro
Thank you for the example! I have our devs investigating and will let you know what I find out.
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Yes, for example the comments on this page (selbstaendig-im-netz.de/2014/08/12/blogs/aufbau-eines-blog-business-tipps-fehler-und-erfahrungen-interview-mit-dem-affenblog) are nofollow, thats the code:
In Open Site Explorer they are listed under equity passing.
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Hi Grobro
Can you provide me with an example?
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Sorry for bringing up this thread again, I have the same problem. When I check the links of a competitor, it shows nofollow comments as equity passing. It seems like a mistake..
Best regards!
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Hello!
A fix has been released and you should no longer see no-followed links marked as having link equity!
Thank you for pointing this out to us
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Hello!
We have confirmed there is a front-end issue that is counting the links as followed but not from our API. We will have this patched up pretty quick!
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Hello!
This does seem very strange as it should not be counting nofollow links. I have one of our engineers looking into this and will let you know what I find out!
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